Indian Mutiny, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow, A.B. Shannon., died at Gyah on 10 June 1858 and mentioned in contemporary account.

Indian Mutiny, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow

John Flynn, A.B. Shannon.,

John Flynn was born in Cork,  1835, Boy 2nd Class aboard Impregnable on 1848, aged 14. Served in Niger from 13 April 1850 to 50 April 1855, as Ordinary Seaman 2nd Class and as Ordinary Seaman. Served Shannon as an Able Seaman  3 October, 1856 and served with Shannon’s Naval Brigade in India, where he died at Gyah on 10 June 1858.

Lieutenant E. H. Verney’s account in The Shannon’s Brigade in India for June 13th states:

‘Lieut. Young, writing from Shergotty, says: “They are at last building barracks for us here, but they cannot be finished for a month. The heat has been excessive, 102 degrees at night in the coolest bungalow in the place. One of out poor fellows, Flynn, a foretopman, actually died of the heat; he went to bed all right and sober, and by all accounts had not been in the sun, but was found a few hours afterwards in a dying state, with the symptoms of sunstroke.’